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Benjamin Bratton
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Antikythera, UC San Diego, Google Paradigms of Intelligence. Selected Books: The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, The Terraforming, Accept All Cookies
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Mar 21
    "Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion" is a new paper just out in Science I co-authored with @blaiseaguera and @profjamesevans as part of Google's Paradigms of Intelligence research group. "For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded
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    Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
    For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike intelligence, consolidating all cognition into a cold silicon...
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    May 30, 2020
    Cockpits: Space Shuttle vs. Dragon
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Jan 2, 2022
    Don’t Look Up has its moments but the Badiou/ Roland Emmerichian idea that climate change is an “Event” is all wrong (it’s also not helpful to call it a Hyperobject for that matter). It’s an uneven slide into increasingly intolerable new normals and needs to be addressed as such.
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Feb 11, 2025
    This is the "Dylan Goes Electric" moment for Millennials, a hopeless attempt to take the axe to the machine to save a few tiny little worlds. As I sit and work in Harold Cohen's old office at UC San Diego, let me say that this take on what AI Art is and is for is mind-numbingly
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    Ed Newton-Rex
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    Feb 10, 2025
    The Guardian reporting on the call from 3,500 artists for the @ChristiesInc AI art auction to be cancelled. It quotes the open letter: “Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a licence.
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Feb 25, 2022
    An actor playing the President who is elected President who may die for the symbolic value of the position he holds is what living in a simulation means.
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Oct 5, 2022
    I am honored to announce Antikythera, a program reorienting computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force.
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Jan 8, 2025
    A summary of Antikythera's 2024 and a preview of our 2025. See you in Tokyo, Milan, Venice, San Francisco, Cambridge, MA, and a few more announced soon. mailchi.mp/f812acc97f4f/2…
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Jan 22, 2024
    Antikythera is growing. Consider joining our core team. We are actively hiring for leadership positions in Operations Director and Media Director. berggruen.org/careers Antikythera.org is a think-tank reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological,
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Sep 11, 2023
    A few weeks after 9/11, CNN ran "Your Proposals", an open to the public architecture design competition to envision what might replace WTC. It includes some of the most amazing things.
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Nov 14, 2025
    QAnon level brainrot about AI is going to get much worse and weirder.
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    kate is drafting 🗡️
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    Nov 12, 2025
    ai is using up all the drinking water for data cooling centers. disrespectfully, fuck your “personal choice” to use it. your personal choices should not impact everybody negatively
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Jun 14, 2022
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Apr 19, 2020
    Lockdowns don't “solve” the pandemic. They reset the clock, buying time for cities to prepare for inevitable 2nd and 3rd waves by raising treatment capacity and availability of testing, etc. Sadly most countries are choosing to not learn the lessons of past systemic failures
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    Benjamin Bratton
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    Feb 5, 2023
    The balloon thing is peak something but don’t know what. The simple transparency of its nothingness, the momentum of fake ignorance about how geoimaging works, etc. Scramble jet fighters to shoot a ghost that you know is not real?
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